Recognizing the forest for the trees: Testing temporal patterns of cladogenesis using a null model of stochastic diversification

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 833-849

  Wollenberg, Kurt ^a,b   Arnold, Jonathan ^a   Avise, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive radiation; evolution; extinction; molecular phylogeny; null model; speciation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHYLOGENY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

AQUILEGIA; AVES; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; GRUIDAE;

EID: 0029899576     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025644     Document Type: Article

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